Meteor Strikes Johannesburg on Saturday Night

[icytailmark]

check out the video clip of it.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/976205/south-african-meteor-lights-up-the-sky


it looks like it exploded just before it hit the ground.

[Allan_L]

WOW ! :eyepop: thanks for posting the link Mark.
Great

[renormalised]

Quite spectacular!!!

[Baddad]

Hi Mark, :)

:eyepop:

Cheers Marty

[Ric]

How awesome was that.

Bet that freaked a few people out.

Must be our turn for something like that to gflash across Australia.

[AstralTraveller]

All I'm getting is "We're sorry, this video is unavailable at this time." I guess I'll have to wait until it turns up on You-Tube.

[gary]

Thanks for the link. Absolutely spectacular.

[Bobbyoutback]

Love to witness one as big as that !

Unfortunately South Africa have a law that all meteorites belong to the state , even if it landed on private land they could not keep it .

Our laws differ In Australia , in W.A. , S.A , N.T. the public are not allowed to hunt meteorites .
In NSW , VIC & Qld its legal to collect & sell them but a export permit is needed for overseas sales .
Sorry I'm not sure about Tassie .

Some meteorites are worth far more per gram then gold :)

[Outbackmanyep]

For those that want up-to-date news use this website!

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/

[rogerg]

wow, what a fireball! Amazing. :eyepop: